'Nasty' Nigel Lythgoe, the original TV super-judge on Popstars back in 1999, returns to British TV; Canadian writer Margaret Atwood picks her favourite moment of genius in scientific history; prolific American novelist Joyce Carol Oates on writing A Fair Maiden; and the Royal Mail's new series of stamps of classic album covers, including New Order, Led Zeppelin and Ziggy Stardust.